We all love going ahead in life. Getting ahead requires you to be smarter. Whether it is improving skills at work or at home or just being able to deal with the agenda of daily life, you need to be smarter than you are. To be smarter, here are five memory skills for you:
Interleaving
Try to comprehend a topic or subject from several angles. Using multiple angles to comprehend the subject helps you memorise and retain it well. For example, have a look at a cricket match. A batsman receives a wide variety of deliveries from pace to spin including full toss.
Retrieve your memory
The authors of Make It Stick, Mark McDaniel and Henry Roediger, state, “The more you can explain about the way your new learning relates to prior knowledge, the stronger your grasp of the new learning will be, and the more connections you create that will help you remember it later.” Recalling a piece of information or an idea from the past strengthens the pathways linked to that concept. To better your memory, use the flash card to recall a memory.
Do evaluation
Evaluation helps you know the faults and as a result, you are able to make decisions properly and improve your productivity. Take a few moments and get the reflection of what happened you made a decision. This will help you make better decisions and avoid the mistakes you made earlier. Therefore, evaluate the decision before making a new decision.
Contemplating Feedback
Getting feedback from others is a great way to know where you were wrong or misinformed. It also helps you know you were thinking clearly or not. The process is known as Calibration. The authors of Make It Stick state here, “Calibration is simply the act of using an objective instrument to clear away illusions and adjust your judgment to better reflect reality.” This process helps you break away the cognitive illusion and enable you to think more clearly and comprehend the things well, you haven’t.
Mnemonics
Using images to identify particular memories or thoughts is a great hack to add the range of your comprehension. This helps you understand the things clearly and quickly. Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel state, “Mnemonics are not tools for learning per se but for creating mental structures that make it easier to retrieve what you have learned.”